Phonemic Awareness What is phonemic awareness?
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
Examples of Phonemic Awareness Skills
Blending: What word am I trying to say? Nnnnn-oooo--t.
Segmentation (first sound isolation): What is the first sound in not?
Segmentation (last sound isolation): What is the last sound in not?
Segmentation (complete): What are all the sounds you hear in not?
Why is phonemic awareness important?
It improves students' word reading and comprehension.
It helps students learn to spell.
When should phonemic awareness be taught?
Phonemic awareness is a skill that is typically taught in kindergarten and first grade. Teachers need to focus on teaching students to manipulate phonemes by using alphabet letter. Additionally, instruction needs to be focused on only one or two sounds rather then several different types of phoneme manipulation.
What is phonemic awareness?
Why is phonemic awareness important?
When should phonemic awareness be taught?
(Begin to Read, 2010)
Phonemic Awareness StrategiesAuditory DiscriminationBlending Phonemes Segmenting PhonemesPushing PenniesOral Rhyming WordsSeven-Step ActivityPicture Sorts (McAndrews, 2008)